Tasmanian Times
Environment
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1.5KLincoln’s irreverent sense of humour and joie de vivre …
*Pic: Lincoln Siliakus with Geoff Law in France … Lincoln Siliakus (1955-2015) When 25-year-old lawyer Lincoln Siliakus left Adelaide to volunteer for...
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Passion in the raw down Huon way. SACKED! Taylor is Commissioner …
*Pic: The Mercury front page, September 21 FRIDAY, October 7 … • Mercury: Former Glenorchy mayor and Elwick MLC Adriana Taylor new...
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NATION: Lights are going out for Turnbull government
Urban Wronski … a reincarnated Bob Ellis Ross Fitzgerald, Fairfax: The destabilisation of Malcolm Turnbull is starting … Greg Hunt begins the...
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Another lesson for Tassie … NZ Insects Downed by Government’s 1080 Blitz
A unique New Zealand native butterfly, the forest ringlet or Dodonidia helmsi (above image by Mike Lusk from Nature Watch), is on...
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Turnbull’s Lunatic Attack on Renewable Energy
South Australia just experienced one of the most ferocious storms of the last century, and instantaneously after this extreme weather event PM...
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We are the Life of the Stars
*Pic: Graphic prepared by Kim Peart in a virtual world with a poem by Kim ~ Star Sprite’s Song ~ writing as...
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The Second Lesson …
Hold on you missed the first one. No, that was just before Christmas when the Bass Strait cable went down with an...
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Eastern quolls edge closer to extinction – but it’s not too late to save them
Eastern quolls – small, fleet-footed and ferocious – are one of Australia’s few surviving marsupial predators1. They were once so common in...
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George Town Council and the Curious Case of the Arbitrary Highway Buffer Zone
‘Scenic management tourist road corridor’- Not exactly an exciting collection of words, but a section of the planning code that is of...
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The Only Thing We Need To Cut Is Our Misguided Faith In Trickle-Down Economics
*Pic: Mike Licht, Flickr We can’t trust the winners to compensate the losers, says Peter Whish-Wilson In the 1890s, US economists first...
